Mother and Child: A Modern Madonna

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
George de Forest Brush (American, 1855–1941). Mother and Child: A Modern Madonna, 1919. Oil on canvas, 43 1/2 x 35 5/8 in. (110.5 x 90.5 cm) frame: 57 1/2 × 50 7/8 × 5 3/4 in. (146.1 × 129.2 × 14.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund and by subscription, 19.93. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Mother and Child: A Modern Madonna
Date
1919
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
43 1/2 x 35 5/8 in. (110.5 x 90.5 cm) frame: 57 1/2 × 50 7/8 × 5 3/4 in. (146.1 × 129.2 × 14.6 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "Geo. de Forest Brush / 1919"
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso: "Do not varnish this picture. wax it./ See that pine trees to the left/ are erect when hagnin [sic].--/ George De Forest/ Brush"
Credit Line
Museum Collection Fund and by subscription
Accession Number
19.93
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